Fox Body vs. .....................Honda Del Sol SiR?

[Fox Body]

This was a pretty cool run. This was also the FIRST time a decent import would actually race me.

I'm on my way and I see this nice red Del Sol coming up on my left (on a three lane road, I'm in the middle lane) and I crack my window to here the fart pipe, but NO FART PIPE, cool. Nice rims, no jungle gym, nice paint, decent window tint, and the white tail lights with the red inside them (kinda hard to describe but I think most of you know what I'm talking about). So I'm kinda impressed.

He passes me and gets down on it and I think sarcastically with a sigh "oh brother" . But guess what. The next light turns red and I think, "Alright, yeah, you gonna throw a challenge, well let's see if you're ready to back it up, buddy" not really believing that he'd even have the guts to run me.

Light turns green and it was one of those gradual starts where I'm kinda making sure he's gonna run and then hit it. It was a pretty spiffy car. We only raced to about 60 as it was evident who had won the race.

And guess what. No infamous flyby . He actually stayed back about two car lengths. I give him 2 toots of my horn as a way of giving the thumbs up.

So, I'm giving Mr. Honda Del Sol SiR a thumbs up for a nice (not overdone) car with a slightly above average amount of push for a 4 cylinder. Basically, the cosmetics matched the power and that's respectable (and uncommon) AND he was more than ready to back up a challenge.

Oh, BTW, (only being able to judge from this one race) this was a high 15 second car-- ~15.7ish

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'79 Mustang Coup
4" Cowl
Weld wheels (15x6;15x8)
Stock 5.8L
C4 w/ shift kit
1.5" MAC full length headers
Holley 750 CFM
Edelbrock intake
2.5" Off road H-pipe, 2-chamber Flowmasters
8.8" Rear end w/ 3.55 gears (Now that's more like it!!)
Front: 225/60/15 Rear: 255/60/15 Eagle GT II
14 x 4” K&N air filter (getting the Xtreme setup soon)

"Red, thou art my companion. Hasten now your quickened metamorphosis to Green that I may conquer all who dare abide there beside me. May they be left thither behind burnt black." ---Fox Body


[This message has been edited by Fox Body (edited 03-28-2001).]